Two men from Alberta are facing potential charges after a protracted police chase over the weekend.
Late Saturday night, a grey Ford F350 was reported stolen from Ironridge Drive.
Police quickly caught up with the vehicle in the Shannon Lake neighbourhood.
“Officers engaged their emergency lights and sirens in an effort to conduct a traffic stop with the freshly stolen pickup truck,” said Corporal Jesse O’Donaghey.
“The stolen pickup truck failed to stop for police, instead accelerating at a high rate of speed, placing the general public, responding police officers and themselves at risk. As a result, our officers dis-engaged their pursuit of the vehicle.”
The truck then hit the highway heading towards Kelowna and successfully avoided a spike-belt laid by police.
Officers eventually cornered the vehicle at a dead end on the west side of the lake, where the truck went off-road in a last ditch effort to escape.
Police performed a high-risk take down, arresting two-men and recovering a pair of sawed-off shotguns from the vehicle.
A 23-year-old man and a 30-year-old man from Cold Lake, Alberta are now awaiting possible charges.